Posted on 08/12/2023 10:33:56 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Milwaukee Brewers are on the verge of exploring relocation options as the team looks to renovate American Family Field.
According to FrontOfficeSports, the team is seeking $448million worth of upgrades to the stadium that was opened in 2001.
While relocation is not the go-to move, it appears that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is pressuring Wisconsin state officials to provide funds by indicating the team could look to move as early as this fall.
American Family Field - formerly known as Miller Park - broke ground in 1996 before its grand Opening Day in 2001.
American Family Field - formerly known as Miller Park - broke ground in 1996 before its grand Opening Day in 2001.
Before then, the Brewers had been playing in Milwaukee County Stadium - a park that had been open for 50 years before closing in 2000.
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Eff them. Still pissed at how they choked in 1982 against the Cardinals in the World Series.
Not really. The numbers almost never really workout. So many times the businesses get free infrastructure and tax breaks and do things like outsource the project, or just open another plant when the tax breaks run out.
Prostitution is prostitution. Pick a whore out of your choice. The story is always the same.
I don’t blame the businesses. I blame the government. They keep offering their cities up.
Good work.
A happened across a book on stadium funding influence on city revenues once in the library and leafed through it.
Then discovered many rich people have gotten the taxpayers to foot the bill (if not for all of the stadium then for freeway exits, access roads, bridges for pedestrians, demolition of buildings and the all important tax breaks.) And instead of the bars, restaurants and stores plus seasonal parking and vendor employees making the money back, the only ones really getting rich after it all were the original rich people.
In the 90s I felt safe going to Milwaukee, and it was cheaper, less crowded than chicago. Not anymore. It’s as bad as Chicago. We had a few tailgate parties at County Stadium - it was fun. The new stadium is not as good for that and I never warmed up to it.
Sometimes you see team names don’t make a lot of sense.
For example, Los Angeles Lakers doesn’t make sense. They were originally the Minneapolis Lakers, which made sense, as Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 lakes. For whatever reason, they kept the name.
When the Montreal Expos moved to Washington, they became the Nationals, as they didn’t want to call them the Washington Expos.
New Orleans Jazz made sense for New Orleans, but when the team moved to Utah, they inexplicably kept the Jazz nickname.
Baseball has long term plans to expand to 32 teams, but Rob Manfred has said that the stadium situations in Oakland and Tampa Bay need to be resolved, before expansion happens.
It sounds like he is adding the Milwaukee stadium situation to the list. After all, if the Brewers are now possibly moving, that would affect cities in line to get an expansion team.
Lambeau.
Is there now an expectation, that new stadiums will be built every 20 years or so, for these professional sports teams?
It seems the useful life of stadiums is shrinking.
And they want to spend over $400 million to renovate/maintain the Brewers stadium? It cost about $400 million to build originally. Are these allegedly needed renovations really that expensive and/or required???
If we tear down BU we can rebuild Braves Field for these guys
Let them go. They’ll be someone else’s problem.
“I don’t blame the businesses. I blame the government.”
Check out the link I gave you.
The businesses come up with an idea. Then they hire “political consultants” aka lobbyists aka bagmen.
Then they start bribing politicians.
The masterminds are the business owners—the crooked politicians are just their instruments.
DC has so much crime going to a game or concert is too dangerous.
We don't have the market for 32 teams, especially if Manfred wants a billion dollar state of art stadium for each team.
Right now, we're probably at 28 teams. Get rid of Oakland and Tampa Bay.
Then you have one of the teams like Milwaukee or Baltimore potentially move to Las Vegas.
Isn’t one Mitt in Utah enough for you people? Do you need a whole team of them?
I got interested in this topic when the regional city (Hartford, CT) decided to build a minor league baseball stadium around 2015.
The city and state have pumped millions into the deal—and the taxpayers have been soaked.
Eight years later the developer of the stadium and surrounding area and the city of Hartford are still in litigation.
The lawyers are making a fortune on this stuff.
Remember a number of years ago, baseball was looking into contraction, rather than expansion? They were planning to buy out at least two franchises, with the rumored targets being the Minnesota Twins and Montreal Expos.
That never happened. But could that idea be revived?
Because they know there will ALWAYS be a city government that whores themselves out. Hiring a consultant to help find the right city, to get the bidding war going is just smart business.
The politicians have to have their hands out to get bribed. Remember when Amazon announced the intention to make a 2nd HQ. Remember all the ways cities trying to get Amazon to come there. Tucson sent them a saguaro (which got sent back), the mayor of KC Missouri bought a bunch of stuff from Amazon and donated it to “charity”, Stonecrest GA offered to de-annex a bunch of land so Amazon could make their own city. And the list goes on and on. It’s machine politics. It’s political whores.
The politicians BEG to be bribed, and offer bribes in return. That’s how this all works. The masterminds are the crooked politicians. This stuff has been going on since Tammany Hall. It’s how the Daley Machine kept the citizens loyal. As long as any member of any city council thinks “I can campaign on adding jobs” this will continue. The politicians have all of the ability to stop this nonsense... and all of the reasons to not stop.
“I sort of like the sound of the Salt Lake City Brewers. It’s almost as good as the Utah Jazz.”
The Brewers moved to Salt Lake City where they don’t allow beer.
The Jazz moved to Utah where they don’t allow music. :-)
Take heart in the bedeepening gloom
That your dog is finally getting enough cheese.
And reflect that whatever fortune may be your lot,
It could only be worse in Milwaukee.
Nashville is probably the next target, that’s a very fast growing area.
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